Friday, November 09, 2007

Being Inspired

Sometime back one of my ex-colleagues Arjan Dewan recommended a book titled "Inspiration" by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. I not a great fan of self help books, hence approached the book with some trepidation.  Reading the book I came across following passage from an ancient Vedantic text by Patanjali penned around 2000 years back; it describes is almost the same as what most programmers experience as being in the zone.

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." 

I have experienced this feeling sometime back, waiting to be inspired again..................

1 comment:

  1. Its when you feel most alive. Isnt it great. Its nice to have stumbled to your blog after a while. Hope your wish comes true and ur in the "zone" again :-)

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